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To choose whether you want to browse the wiki with folders open or closed by default, and with links normal or highlighted, highlighted go to [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/profile.php your profile page]] in the top right corner. This is accessible only if you're [[Administrivia/GetKnown a known troper]]. The profile also controls your preferences for our fora and noticeboards.

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The standard Wiki/TVTropes layout has a grey toolbar above the pagetitle, a black bar at the bottom of the page and expanding menus on the right side.

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The standard Wiki/TVTropes layout has a grey black toolbar above the pagetitle, a black bar at the bottom of the page and expanding menus on the right side. side. When looking at the page from a small screen, the expanding menus are hidden behind the button in the upper left corner.

** '''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm.php Message]]''' is the page where Private Messages display and can be sent. If you have a new PM, you'll see a big green notification bar on several pages you visit and a red icon over the avatar. To see your [=PMs=], go to your [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm.php mailbox]]. Also, please remember that private messages are ''private'' for a reason. Disseminating the contents of a PM without permission from the other party is grounds for loss of PM privileges.

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** '''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm.php Message]]''' is the page where Private Messages display and can be sent. If you have a new PM, you'll see a big green notification bar on several pages you visit and a red icon over the avatar. To see your [=PMs=], go to your [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm.php mailbox]]. Also, please remember that private messages are ''private'' for a reason. Disseminating the contents of a PM without permission from the other party is grounds for loss of PM privileges.

* '''Watch''' lets you add the current article to your [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/awl.php watchlist]]. Any edits to the article or its discussion page will appear on your watchlist. Watching a media article will also cause you to be notified of any new [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php reviews]] for it. Note: If the article you're viewing has multiple subpages, like [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}, etc., you have to watch each separately. If the article is already watched, you can click '''Watch''' again to remove it.

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* '''Watch''' The '''Follow''' button lets you add the current article to your [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/awl.php watchlist]].watchlist]], after that is done the text of the button changes to '''Following'''. Any edits to the article or its discussion page will appear on your watchlist. Watching a media article will also cause you to be notified of any new [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php reviews]] for it. Note: If the article you're viewing has multiple subpages, like [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}, etc., you have to watch each separately. If the article is already watched, you can click '''Watch''' '''Following''' again to remove it.

[[folder:Buttons beside and below the article title]]* '''Share''' lets you share the content of an article on Twitter, Facebook and other websites.* The '''Subpages''' list lets you see all articles that share a base URL with the one you're looking at.

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[[folder:Buttons beside and below the article title]]* '''Share''' lets you share the content of an article on Twitter, Facebook and other websites.* The '''Subpages''' list lets you see all articles that share a base URL with the one you're looking at.title]]^

* There is a standard way to format examples. Titles of films, shows, and albums are ''italicized''. Use two separate apostrophes around the title: [=''ThePriceIsRight''=] for ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Titles of episodes and songs are in quotes: "Brittle Bullet." See Administrivia/HowToWriteAnExample for details. Really, take a look at it.

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* There is a standard way to format examples. Titles of films, shows, and albums are ''italicized''. Use two separate apostrophes around the title: [=''ThePriceIsRight''=] for ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Titles of short works such as episodes and songs are in quotes: "Brittle Bullet." See Administrivia/HowToWriteAnExample for details. Really, take a look at it.

All new tropes must go through TropeLaunchPad before being added to the wiki. To support this, the wiki will reject any attempt to create a new article in the Main Administrivia/{{namespace}} that is not launched through TLP. '''Do not''' attempt to circumvent this by creating your trope in a different namespace; this will get your editing privileges revoked.

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All new tropes must go through TropeLaunchPad before being added to the wiki. To support this, the wiki will reject any attempt to create a new article in the Main Administrivia/{{namespace}} that is not launched through TLP. '''Do not''' attempt to circumvent this by creating your trope in a different namespace; this namespace as the page will get your be cut and you may lose editing privileges revoked.privileges.

* It is no longer possible to create redirects in the Main namespace without moderator permission. Ask in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=gsjp7dldjh2dwdelcha2hu17 this forum topic]] for help if you wish to do this.** We do not permit redirects to creator or media articles in the Main namespace.

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* It is no longer possible to create redirects in the Main namespace without moderator permission. Ask in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=gsjp7dldjh2dwdelcha2hu17 this forum topic]] for help if you wish to do this.** We do not permit redirects to creator or media articles in the Main namespace.this. Don't ask for cross-namespace redirects, please.

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* "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=renames Trope Repair Shop]]" is the forum where we discuss major overhauls to wiki articles.

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* "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=renames Trope Repair Shop]]" org/pmwiki/cutlist.php Cut List]]" is the forum where we discuss major overhauls tool by which you can request a [[Administrivia/KnowTheStaff moderator]] to wiki articles.delete a page. Posting a page here does not automatically delete it and you can make a case for keeping a page there.

* "CutList" is where pages are proposed to be deleted. Posting a page here does not automatically delete it and you can make a case for keeping a page there.* "Find recent edits by troper": Exactly what it says; search for recent edits by troper handle.

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* "CutList" "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/img_list.php Images List]]" is where pages are proposed to be deleted. Posting we have a page here does not automatically delete it and you can make a case for keeping a page there.* "Find recent edits by troper": Exactly what it says; search for recent edits by troper handle.list of images on the site.

* "Report page": Send a request for moderator assistance with the page. This can be anything from flagging it as containing "adult" material to Administrivia/{{Edit War}}ring to [[WikiVandal vandalism]]. These reports can also be made on AskTheTropers. Check the "The page may violate the Content Policy" checkbox to alert the forum that a work might violate Administrivia/{{the Content Policy|AndThe5PCircuit}}.

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* "Report page": Send a request for moderator assistance with the page. This can be anything from flagging it as containing "adult" material to Administrivia/{{Edit War}}ring bug reports; but please use AskTheTropers to report [[WikiVandal vandalism]]. These reports can also be made on AskTheTropers.vandalism]] and other troper misbehaviours. Check the "The page may violate the Content Policy" checkbox to alert the forum that a work might violate Administrivia/{{the Content Policy|AndThe5PCircuit}}.

* '''[[{{Media}} Works]]''': The stuff that produces tropes. Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, but keep in mind that if it doesn't have a story -- that is, a narrative or plot of some kind -- it's not really tropable in the sense we use. Works have various subpages that help to organize all the material related to them, such as [[QuotesWiki Quotes]], {{Trivia}}, [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}, [[FridgeLogic Fridge]], [[WildMassGuessing WMG]], AwesomeMoments, CharacterSheets, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php Reviews]], etc.

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* '''[[{{Media}} Works]]''': The stuff that produces tropes. Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, but keep in mind that if it doesn't have a story -- that is, a narrative or plot of some kind -- it's not really tropable in the sense we use. Works have various subpages that help to organize all the material related to them, such as [[QuotesWiki Quotes]], {{Trivia}}, [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}, [[FridgeLogic Fridge]], [[WildMassGuessing WMG]], AwesomeMoments, SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, CharacterSheets, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php Reviews]], etc.

'''Please do not use your contributor page to draft original content or store trope examples for your OC.''' If you are creating a work, you ''may'' create an article for it in the DarthWiki/DarthWiki namespace and index it under UnpublishedWorks. Do not create subpages for your contributor page, as they will be cut. Do not host original content on our wiki.

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'''Please do not use your contributor page to draft original content or store trope examples for your OC.''' If you are creating a work, you ''may'' create an article for it in the DarthWiki/DarthWiki namespace and index it under UnpublishedWorks.DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks. Do not create subpages for your contributor page, as they will be cut. Do not host original content on our wiki.

* Remember: Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability. We don't cut a media article because of obscurity, lack of popularity, or even nonexistence; see UnpublishedWorks. Articles that are poorly written, don't have enough trope examples, are created solely to advertise a work, or violate the [[Administrivia/TheContentPolicyAndThe5PCircuit Content Policy]] may be cut.

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* Remember: Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability. We don't cut a media article because of obscurity, lack of popularity, or even nonexistence; see UnpublishedWorks.DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks. Articles that are poorly written, don't have enough trope examples, are created solely to advertise a work, or violate the [[Administrivia/TheContentPolicyAndThe5PCircuit Content Policy]] may be cut.

* Articles created specifically for {{Gushing}} or Administrivia/{{Complaining|AboutShowsYouDontLike}} about works, people, or anything really. That said, you can indulge yourself a bit in SugarWiki/SugarWiki and DarthWiki/DarthWiki, or write a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php review]].

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* Articles created specifically for {{Gushing}} SugarWiki/{{Gushing|AboutShowsYouLike}} or Administrivia/{{Complaining|AboutShowsYouDontLike}} about works, people, or anything really. That said, you can indulge yourself a bit in SugarWiki/SugarWiki and DarthWiki/DarthWiki, or write a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php review]].

'''Please do not use your contributor page to draft original content or store trope examples for your OC.''' If you are creating a work, you ''may'' create an article for it in the DarthWiki namespace and index it under UnpublishedWorks. Do not create subpages for your contributor page, as they will be cut. Do not host original content on our wiki.

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'''Please do not use your contributor page to draft original content or store trope examples for your OC.''' If you are creating a work, you ''may'' create an article for it in the DarthWiki DarthWiki/DarthWiki namespace and index it under UnpublishedWorks. Do not create subpages for your contributor page, as they will be cut. Do not host original content on our wiki.

* Articles created specifically for {{Gushing}} or Administrivia/{{Complaining|AboutShowsYouDontLike}} about works, people, or anything really. That said, you can indulge yourself a bit in SugarWiki and DarthWiki, or write a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php review]].

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* Articles created specifically for {{Gushing}} or Administrivia/{{Complaining|AboutShowsYouDontLike}} about works, people, or anything really. That said, you can indulge yourself a bit in SugarWiki SugarWiki/SugarWiki and DarthWiki, DarthWiki/DarthWiki, or write a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php review]].

* '''[[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]]''' and '''AudienceReactions''': YMMV tropes are found in works, but the degree to which they are present is often highly subjective and/or prone to argument. Audience Reactions are broadly categorized under tropes, but really they're opinions about a work rather than stuff that's factually present in a work. Both go on the work's YMMV subpage to keep the main page clear for objective stuff. Then there are the even more subjective concepts found in '''SugarWiki''' and '''DarthWiki''' that are restricted to their own subpages.

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* '''[[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]]''' and '''AudienceReactions''': YMMV tropes are found in works, but the degree to which they are present is often highly subjective and/or prone to argument. Audience Reactions are broadly categorized under tropes, but really they're opinions about a work rather than stuff that's factually present in a work. Both go on the work's YMMV subpage to keep the main page clear for objective stuff. Then there are the even more subjective concepts found in '''SugarWiki''' '''SugarWiki/SugarWiki''' and '''DarthWiki''' '''DarthWiki/DarthWiki''' that are restricted to their own subpages.

* If you want, add your details to JustForFun/WhereAreYouFrom and WhatAreTheContributorsRealNames. This is purely optional, so if you're uncomfortable giving out personal information about yourself, don't sweat it.

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* If you want, add your details to JustForFun/WhereAreYouFrom and WhatAreTheContributorsRealNames.JustForFun/WhatAreTheContributorsRealNames. This is purely optional, so if you're uncomfortable giving out personal information about yourself, don't sweat it.

* If you want, add your details to WhereAreYouFrom and WhatAreTheContributorsRealNames. This is purely optional, so if you're uncomfortable giving out personal information about yourself, don't sweat it.

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* If you want, add your details to WhereAreYouFrom JustForFun/WhereAreYouFrom and WhatAreTheContributorsRealNames. This is purely optional, so if you're uncomfortable giving out personal information about yourself, don't sweat it.

* '''Watch''' lets you add the current article to your [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/awl.php watchlist]]. Any edits to the article or its discussion page will appear on your watchlist. Watching a media article will also cause you to be notified of any new [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php reviews]] for it. Note: If the article you're viewing has multiple subpages, like [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers}}, etc., you have to watch each separately. If the article is already watched, you can click '''Watch''' again to remove it.

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* '''Watch''' lets you add the current article to your [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/awl.php watchlist]]. Any edits to the article or its discussion page will appear on your watchlist. Watching a media article will also cause you to be notified of any new [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php reviews]] for it. Note: If the article you're viewing has multiple subpages, like [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers}}, {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}, etc., you have to watch each separately. If the article is already watched, you can click '''Watch''' again to remove it.

* '''[[{{Media}} Works]]''': The stuff that produces tropes. Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, but keep in mind that if it doesn't have a story -- that is, a narrative or plot of some kind -- it's not really tropable in the sense we use. Works have various subpages that help to organize all the material related to them, such as [[QuotesWiki Quotes]], {{Trivia}}, [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers}}, [[FridgeLogic Fridge]], [[WildMassGuessing WMG]], AwesomeMoments, CharacterSheets, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php Reviews]], etc.

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* '''[[{{Media}} Works]]''': The stuff that produces tropes. Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, but keep in mind that if it doesn't have a story -- that is, a narrative or plot of some kind -- it's not really tropable in the sense we use. Works have various subpages that help to organize all the material related to them, such as [[QuotesWiki Quotes]], {{Trivia}}, [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]], {{Headscratchers}}, {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}, [[FridgeLogic Fridge]], [[WildMassGuessing WMG]], AwesomeMoments, CharacterSheets, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_activity.php Reviews]], etc.

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